Posted By
Litwr
on 2016-02-15
11:53:20
|  Re: Commodore 16 price at 1986
A very big thank for the information.  However I hope to get a bit more. 
The English page for Commodore 16 in Wikipedia says "Beginning in 1986, remaining C16, C116 and Plus/4 inventories were sold at a much reduced price on the Eastern Bloc market, chiefly Hungary" - it should be corrected.
So some men at the Eastern Bloc made a good business. I may give the evidence that the selling of computers at USSR might give upto 1000% profit!
The mentioned wiki-page also contains interesting information about Mexico, where C16 were sold at 1985-92. It is odd that we have no any information about Mexican users of C16/C+4. 
The page at http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/227/commodore-c16/ gives information about C16 prices during 1985 (from £99 at the beginnig to £49 at the end of year) in UK. IMHO it was about from $150 downto $75.
I also found this very funny thread in our forum - http://plus4world.powweb.com/forum/3172#3180. It is so odd that C+4 was much cheaper than C16 at the end of 1984. It is very sad that the mentioned C16 advertisment video is probably lost forever.
BTW I should note the Austrian collector page at http://scacom.bplaced.net/Collection/16/16en.php. It contains the exact numbers of C16/116/+4 unit sold! This information shows that C232 family is more than 2 millions. It is curious to get such information about other countries...
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